Sergei shchukin biography

Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
Sergei Shchukin (1854–1936) came from a family of Moscow merchants.

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Shchukin. Biography of a Collection.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will present one of the most prominent collections of European Modernist art, encompassing the most important artistic trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibition, extraordinary in its scale and content, will occupy almost the entire museum space. The project will show the history of Sergei Shchukin’s compilation of his collection through his personality, his family’s biography, and the cultural and historical context. To help recreate that context, the collections of Sergei Shchukin’s brothers Pyotr, Dmitry, and Ivan will also be displayed. The exhibition will include masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other masters. The objective of the exhibition is to display one of the world’s largest collections as completely as possible. The collection, which was divided among museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1948, will be reunited at the Pushkin State Museum of

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Celebrating the Genius of Sergei Shchukin

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Sergei Shchukin Biography

Sergei Shchukin was born in 1854 in Moscow to a wealthy family of Russian textile merchants. Sergei spent studies in Germany and France learning about the textile industry before returning to Moscow in 1878 to join his fathers’ business “Shchukin and Son.” Sergei excelled in the industry, earning himself the nickname “Moscow Minister of Commerce.” During this time he married Moscow beauty Lydia Ivanovna Koreneva, and together they had 4 children: Ivan, Ekaterina, Sergei and Grigori. His father was so impressed with Sergei’s success, that he rewarded him with the Trubetzkoy Palace.

It was not until 1897 that Sergei bought his first piece of art while in Paris – a Matisse. This set Sergei off on a wild collecting streak which resulted in a collection containing over 250 Impressionist and Post-impressionist paintings including a whopping 50 Picasso’s, 28 Matisse’s, 13 Monet’s, 8 Cezanne’s, 4 Van Gogh’s, and 16 Gauguin’s from his Tahiti collection. Unfortunately, Sergei suffered many personal loses between 1905 and 1911. First his younger son Sergei dro